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Leave No Trace and The Rider look amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Same here in my poor country. It's either superhero or ultra-action movies or nothing. I still dream to watch a nice drama movie in a cinema.

This is why we have cheap big-screen TVs now: you can just watch this stuff in the comfort of your own home, and not have to deal with: sticky floors, overpriced and unhealthy concessions, screaming children, conversing or texting viewers, inability to pause to go to the bathroom, etc.

Agree. We could use anything to have uninterrupted power for 24 hours. Although coal plants are being build but current government is also investing in hydel, solar and wind farms. I think coal will be a short term fix while we sort out economy and then focus more on renewables.

What's next? Chrome marking certificates not signed by Google CA as "Maybe not secure"?

I am from Pakistan and I really wish it was the US. I wish they had spent 1/10th of the money on development they spent on the war. This could have been something that brought stability and more US influence in the region. I think China will reap all the benefits now.

Where in the world has the US brought stability with its international politics?

Europe for a couple of decades following WW2.

That is a bit of an overstatement.

If we look at casualties, the US 400k pales in comparison to the to the 26 million of the Soviet Union[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Human_...

Why just couple of decades? Its still quite peaceful here.

Yes, but not significantly due to recent US policy or actions.

The Taiwan policy has been pretty good over the last many decades, and there have been other interludes of excellence, such as that offer to Marcos ("you can live in the US and enjoy the spoils of your crimes in peace if you move NOW and PEACEFULLY"). I'm sure there are more.

...thanks to the Allies. From then, the US returned to its bloody, destructive colonialist behavior.

Maybe even four or five. It's little because of the only USA now.

People here defending the donation need to remember that Brandon Eich was let go for much less.

Which was also regrettable.

Would you rather have an internet where every website has a design like an article from Wikipedia? Google is probably in their right to highlight pages using AMP (it's their search engine) but probably unfair.

It would be amazing if every website were designed like Wikipedia. With the exception of MediaViewer, Wikipedia is one of the best-designed websites out there. It's light, content-prominent, progressively enhanced, HTTPS-only. Even their mobile site is pretty good (though basically all mobile experiences are bad nowadays). What exactly is wrong with Wikipedia's design?

Wikipedia's mobile site is fantastic, IMO. I really wish all mobile sites were like Wikipedia's. The pain of browsing the web on mobile would go away completely.

I think it's mostly OK. A lot of my problems with mobile would be alleviated if I could get a browser to reflow text on demand. It used to be you could set your zoom level, double tap and the page would reflow to the new zoom level. This doesn't seem possible now, so I'm always scrolling side to side if I want to be zoomed in a bit more.

I have a few other minor problems about how Wikipedia's mobile page handles without Javascript enabled, but one big thing is that there's a minimum zoom level set. I can zoom in, but I can't zoom out, which means if I want more text per line, there's nothing to be done. This again feeds in to the lack of reflow in mobile browsers. I have no idea why this feature went away, but it completely ruined the mobile web for me.

Mobile Firefox does this fine. JumpGo does it, too, which means that it's certainly still possible in Android System WebView.

I use mobile firefox - how do you get it to reflow? I would love that feature if I knew how to activate it.

Similarly, I use mobile FireFox and would LOVE to know how to reflow text. That was my all-time favorite feature in any phone browser I've ever used, but the last browser I had access to with auto text reflow was the Silk browser on an original Kindle Fire.

How can I make this happen on mobile FireFox?

My mistake. I thought it did support it, but apparently not anymore.

I find it laggy when browsing to section anchors or more generally to big pages. Other than that, you're right, the mobile site is nice.

Maybe I am in the minority here, but I like to enjoy design, the placement of the content, the choice of fonts and custom article designs for featured contents, etc. My point is that efforts should be focused on optimizing the speed but still maintaining the richness and individuality of the Web.

Oh God yes please. So many sites would actually be readable. This is how you get things like Readability getting popular

not every site has SEO as its main traffic source